Northern California Fires

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Image Courtesy Norman Kuring, SeaWiFS Project

Smoke from several large forest fires blanketed areas of Northern California in late summer, 1999. On September 2, 1999 four groups of fires in the Plumas and Shasta-Trinity National Forests covered almost 45,000 acres.

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